eBIZ.mobility, a Tel Aviv based start up has raised $1 million from the Zitelman Group, a private investment banking firm based in Rockville, MD. eBIZ.mobility developed a Federated Payment System, which provides secure processing of online digital payment without a credit card…
Giza Venture Capital has invested $1.5 million in Israel’s Triond, a web publishing service. Triond enables content creators to publish original content of any kind (images, posts, etc), for publication on partner sites on Triond’s network. The result for the…
Kenshoo – The SEM automation company has raised what is considered to be an “up round”, an additional capital injection from its current backer Sequoia, for a much higher valuation. The size of the round was undisclosed, but sources told…
The Israeli venture capital industry has experienced a $250 million decline in the past few months. Israeli venture capital funds have struggled to raise the target capital and the impact is likely to be felt on emerging technology companies in Israel.
Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, has some good advice to CEOs who are struggling to keep their start ups afloat. Rather than keeping a blog, he sends a weekly-ish newsletter – sign up here to get his updates. I…
There is no magic formula to secure funding from any VC, let alone one that is not in your home country. It’s almost like finding a relationship – if you’re lucky, you will find the partner of your dreams, but…
In 2007, when vertical search was hotter than Twitter, people search was the cherry to pick. Indeed, many tried. Spock Spokeo, Wink, Peekyou, Pipl.com and in some ways, Israel’s own Delver, to name a few. Now the people search vertical is heating…
The London Business School Entrepreneurship Club is organising a networking event mid-March for current MBA and Executive MBA students to meet entrepreneurs. The aim of this event is networking and knowledge-sharing between people who are thinking of starting their own…
As the volume of user generated content grows, discovering quality content is becoming harder and harder. Just think about how much crap you read in blogs for the one link you feel is note worthy, or these days, Twitter worthy.…
Happy Monday everyone. Below is a short list of links that caught my attention on the week ending on February 22 2009: 1. Hulu no longer plays on Boxee- It turns out that CBS decided that it wants to keep…
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